The Kumulipo
The meaning of the word Kumulipo.
What is origin and deep darkness/source?
The many forms taken by a supernatural body.
What is a kinolau?
Family or personal gods, or deified ancestors who might assume the shape of an animal or plant.
What is an 'aumakua?
Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi.
What is the archipelago?
In the Kumulipo, the name of the first human born.
Who is Laʻilaʻi?
The number of wā in the Ao.
What is eight?
The oldest of the four main akua.
Who is Kāne?
In the old ‘aumākua video, what was the animal that protected the people in the cave.
What is the pueo (owl)?
To Native Hawaiians, the land was these three things.
What is Akua, ancestor, and provider?
The name of the flat and sloping lands between the uka and kai. Many useful products were made from the plants growing in this area.
What is kula?
The wā was man born into.
What is wā 16?
The name of the heiau of Kū.
What is a luakini heiau (sacrificial temple)?
The traditional forms an ʻaumākua can take.
What are ʻalalā (crow), manō (shark), pueo (owl), heʻe (octopus), moʻo (lizard), puhi (eel), ʻioleliʻiliʻi (field mice), peʻelua (caterpillar), mea kanu (plant), and pōhaku (rock)?
A small land section farmed by a tenant for a chief within an ahupuaʻa.
What is Kōʻele/Pōʻalima?
The head of a moʻo family before the coming of Kū and Hina.
Who is Moʻoinanea?
The beings born in the first verse.
What is coral and reef-dwelling life, seaweeds and tiny marine organisms, worms and other small invertebrates, and various marine organisms?
The name of the Kū of war.
Who is Kūkaʻilimoku?
An owl from Maui who brings souls back to life who are wandering on the plains.
Who is Pueonuiakea?
The land highest in the mountains where the akua were believed to live. No one was allowed up there, as it was a sacred place.
What is Wao Akua?
Also known as Kalā‘aiheana, she was the daughter of Piʻilani. After her death, she was deified as a moʻo at Mokuʻulainā, Lāhaina.
Who is Kihawahine?
The creatures born in the third verse.
What are birds, birds with cultural roles, and insects?
The kinolau of Kanaloa.
What are the ocean, waves, tides, and currents, naiʻa (dolphin), koholā (whale), heʻe (octopus), maiʻa (banana), limu, and other sea plants?
This method involves preserving, worshiping, and dedicating a deceased family member's bones to an akua (god). The deceased would take on this form, and the family would recognize them through a marking.
What is kakuʻai?
A mele that takes the listener on a tour of the island of Hawaiʻi through its larger districts. It begins in Hilo on the east coast and, moving clockwise through the Puna, Kaʻū, Kona, Kawaihae, Kohala, Waimea, and Hāmākua districts.
What is Hilo Hanakahi?
The proxies of Lono.
What are Lonoikamakahiki, Lonokahāloa, Lonoikua, Lononuinohoikawai, Lonomākua, and Kamapuaʻa?